I've researched this thoroughly. The earliest example of this trope was the Season 9 episode of CHEERS ("Grease"). The second was in the Season 4 episode of WINGS (which was from some of the producers of Cheers). There isn't a valid example of this joke prior to those two.
Does this fit in the "Did I Just Say that Out Loud" trope:
During an episode of the British panel show QI, Phill Jupitus tells a long strange story about tipping over rickshaws.
When he finishes, Stephen Fry just looks at him and gives him a uninterested grunt. Another panelist, Andy Hamilton, asks Fry, "You realize that you just said that out loud, right?"
Fry didn't seem embarrassed about it. He just moved on to the next topic. That's why I'm not sure about this.
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, started by Leaper on Jun 19th 2014 at 4:25:26 AM
A new picture, please? The current one is an awkward-looking scanslation of what appears to be a doujinshi and requires instructions to view properly.
The quote from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas at the top of this page is not an example of this trope.
The description on this page describes the trope perfectly, but the book passage above it is purely part of an *internal* monologue. At no point does a character with *outer* monologue say: "Did I just say that out loud?" (or words to that effect)
This trope page seems to have overzealously expanded to include at moment in any form of entertainment where someone wonders if they said something out loud.
The trope is: Character absent-mindedly says something out loud without realising it. What they say should be meandering or revealing, or otherwise embarrassing. They should suddenly catch themselves and say, "Did I just say that out loud?"
If all these elements are not present, it is not this trope.
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